Comments on: Jay Severin’s whoppers on health care

By: DavidFromBrighton

DavidFromBrighton — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 02:01:45 +0000

Chris, just realized I never replied to your last comment. No, I wasn’t making any reference to RNC talking points. Read the bill? Tell you what … I will read the whole bill when Severin, McCaughey, and the like stop quoting single sections from the bill and saying they mean something they don’t. And a Ponzi scheme only fails when the supply of suckers runs out. There is, so far as we can forecast, an infinite supply of taxpayers.

By: Chris Smith

Chris Smith — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 13:11:22 +0000

DavidFromBrighton

Is this the RNC talking points you are talking about? “Every Republican should stand up for health care reform that controls cost, preserves quality and provides the health care that Americans deserve,” the memo reads. READ THE BILL! All of our Gov programs are going belly up and they want to take on another one? look up Ponzi scheme.

By: DavidFromBrighton

DavidFromBrighton — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 02:18:59 +0000

Meah, there is no legal recourse NOR SHOULD THERE BE. It is up to the listeners, not the police or the courts, to decide what is a lie. A government cannot be libeled or slandered, only a person can be, and it is very difficult to libel or slander a public official.

The only thing that will get Jay Severin off the air is a lack of sponsorship, and that will only happen if (a) his ratings decline, or (b) he says yet another thing that is so patently offensive that no business wants to be associated with him.

It saddens me to hear so many of his callers agree with Jay’s opinions and pronouncements even after other callers take him to task. But it’s not terribly surprising. If Jay weren’t around, the people who fall for his lies and faulty logic would probably reach similar conclusions by following other dubious sources of information.

By: meah

meah — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 22:59:40 +0000

Is there no legal recourse to the lies of Severin? This is not free speech, this is slander and misrepresentation of the United States governments position such as his prononcenment during the pirate standoff that Obama had ordered that “no Somali be hurt” when in fact Obama had given the Seals the go-head to do whatever necessary several hours before the Severin show. Just on example of perhaps thousands.
I have heard only some of his utterances on health care. Today, he states that Obama’s plan will be practicing ‘eugenics”, that with Obama’s plan Helen Thomas would never live to be 88, etc. The “best and the brightest” fall right in line with him.
These are serious lies that affect the outcome of elections, the ability of the Congress to get legitimate feedback from constituents and contribute to the decline of the country. Are there no laws that prohibit slander and propaganda against the government? His hatred of Obama is pathological and his comments about him deserving of being banned from the airways. He is so truly ignorant about hospitals, doctors, nurses and healthcare that it is enraging. Can anything be done about him? Calling sponsors doesn’t work.

By: DavidFromBrighton

DavidFromBrighton — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 18:16:20 +0000

Brendan, if these are the talking points you’re talking about, then I would say that Jay has put his own spin on them — or at least the right-wing talk radio host union’s spin.

By: brendan

brendan — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 16:12:24 +0000

David,
Jay Severin is far from “different” when compared to most right-wing radio hosts. Fact is, the majority of them are spewing these same “talking points” about health care day-in and day-out. Actually, each of these talking points were detailed in a memo from the RNC which was posted on Huffingtonpost.com.. I cant be bothered to go and find it, but it lends credibility to the rumors that these radio hosts get handed their talking points directly from the RNC.

By: DavidFromBrighton

DavidFromBrighton — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 00:42:17 +0000

Oh, I don’t think there’s any question who will be going out to convince these old people to die. It will be members of Obama’s civilian national police force … remember them?

By: meah

meah — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 21:39:45 +0000

What Severin does not consider is who is going to carry out Obama’s so-called directives. I only listened long enough to hear him say,to the effect , that health care workers would co-erce patient’s to sign on for an early death, thus saving the govt money by refusing care? Then, he went on to say that these enticers would receive bonus’depending on how many they signed up. What are his sources for such information given out over the public airways? First, no sane person would agree to such trickery; no family would allow it. Finding persons to do this “work” would be next to impossible and if such a ludicrous scheme were ever to be, there would be a mass exodus from the health care field. No MD would allow his/her patient to be subjected. Of course Severin’s fantasies are just that and really border on a diagnosis of delusional. Hard to believe he has even one supporter. How WTKK employs folks such as Graham, Severin and McPhee and not label their station an entertainment center is a mystery. I tune in only for brief segments, but have never heard any actual factual support for their drivel. They are all laughable yet dangerous to honest discourse whereby citizens try to make informed decisions.

By: linda

linda — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 01:31:28 +0000

David, it is my opinion that Jay believes what he is saying. Although he does not fit into that category by means of background, education, or salary, I believe that Jay is an elitist. He actually told a caller that he did not care about that person’s healthcare, as he cared only about his own. He belabors the point of the millions of illegal aliens who will now be sitting in HIS doctors’ waiting rooms. Maybe he should take a lesson from Michael Jackson and get his own doctor, who could live in his house and tend to his family. Meanwhile, all of the unwashed masses, who are quietly paying their $20 co-pays, can die while waiting in the overflowing waiting rooms he envisions. And somehow tied into this totally skewed vision, he is commenting endlessly on fat and stupid bureaucrats who will now tell all of us what to do and whether we will live or die. The other day, while talking about healthcare, he referenced ignoramuses from the Registry of Motor Vehicles. How he tied these thoughts together, I do not know, except that they added to those civil servants who are beneath his contempt. And the worst of it is that the Best and Brightest are following this maniacal pied piper as if they were sheep going to the slaughter. So money, yes, and ratings, of course, are a major preoccupation for Jay. But I do not think he could keep up this fever pitch day after day unless he truly believed what he is saying. In my opinion, the man is a maniac and his message to the gullible and uneducated is at this point dangerous.

By: DavidFromBrighton

DavidFromBrighton — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 23:38:52 +0000

Linda, is it that hard to figure out? Jay is trying to earn a million dollars a year. (Whether he still makes that after the “women with mustaches” incident, I don’t know, but that’s certainly a benchmark for him.) The only way he can do that is to have a big audience, the only way he can have a big audience is to be different, and the only way he can successfully be different is to say things that no one else will say. So he is either so stupid that he doesn’t realize what he’s saying is wrong or he is so cynical and callous that he values his paycheck far more than his integrity. I wish his father’s ghost would call up one day and say “Jimmy, knock it off. You’re embarrassing the family.”